Peter Pan...Forever.

This is a posting I will have to return to and edit multiple times. It's one of those enduring questions for young people. "When," we desperately ask, "are we done growing? When they finally tell us we can smoke? drink? vote?"

Sadly, being an adult is over-rated. In my childhood fantasies I thought that adult responsibilities = freedom. But no. Off to work, 8-5, you go. Meanwhile, most people grow up only to grow old. The rampant patriarchy in our culture is partly responsible for the 50% divorce rate...Basically, happy marriages are few and far between. Kids are cute but, my oh my, are they are to raise. So...a call to all adults out there: where's the incentive to join the ranks?

I don't have any answers at this point. I just want to make the following statement: in America, social chores are disguised as individual fulfillment. Society want us newbies to lust after a fat life in suburbia, pumping our money and kids into a corrupt system that we THINK is inevitable, even good for us. If growing up means working 8-5 and sending my kids to school so that they can someday work 8-5, I'm checking out. I'll teach piano and drop off the social radar. Peter Pan...Forever.